Alba de Céspedes

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Alba de Céspedes (born March 11, 1911 in Rome , † November 14, 1997 in Paris ) was a Cuban - Italian writer and journalist.

Life

Céspedes came from the family of the first Cuban President Carlos Manuel de Céspedes , whose granddaughter she was. Her father was a Cuban diplomat in Rome, her mother Italian. She grew up trilingual in Rome, sometimes separated from her parents when her father was called to the United States. Married in 1926, their first child was born in 1928.

She then divorced her husband and devoted herself to literature and journalism. Works that propagated an independent image of women fell victim to censorship under Mussolini , which even drove Céspedes into active resistance for a short time. After the end of the war she resumed her writing in Rome, but moved to Paris in 1967. She traveled a lot with her second husband. She became a follower of Fidel Castro , to whom she wanted to dedicate her last work. However, disappointed with the reality, she never finished it.

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She wrote psychological social and women's novels such as 1938 The Call to the Other Shore ( Nessuno torna indietro ), 1943 Flucht ( Fuga ), 1950 Alexandra ( Dalla parte di lei ), 1953 The Forbidden Diary ( Quaderno proibito ), 1965 The Remorse ( Il rimorso ), 1967 The Bambolona and 1973 Alone in this house ( Quaderno proibito ).

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  • 1939: Dangerous women ( Io, suo padre )
  • 1970: La Bambolona - the big doll ( La Bambolona )

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SURNAME Céspedes, Alba de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1997
Place of death Paris